PANAJI
The Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, launched one of the largest drug abuse prevention drive in school settings on June 27 at Institute Menezes Braganza at the state-level ‘Workshop on Prediction, Protection and Prevention’, in the presence of Shivendu Bhusan, IPS, SP Anti Narcotic Cell, Shailesh Zingade, Director of Education, Ajit Panchwadkar, Director of Social Welfare, Sindhu Prabhudessai, Assistant Director of Education (Academics), Peter F Borges, Chairperson, Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights and Members of the Commission.
Attended by 370 School Nodal Teachers of Prahari Clubs, a club to ensure a drug-free campus by imposing a total ban on the possession or consumption or use of drugs and alcohol by students at the school, within or outside the campus. A large range of preventive programmes will be promoted through the clubs to prevent children from using tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.
Speaking on the occasion, Shivendu Bhusan highlighted the need for coordinated efforts between drug demand reduction and supply reduction.
Dr Ravindra Agrawal, President, Psychiatric Society of Goa stressed on the various positive approaches that the clubs should adopt to create a safe environment in school.
Dr Rajesh Dhume, senior Psychiatrist highlighted those consequences for young adolescents, their families, and communities, and Dr Kashyap Bandodkar, talked on tobacco consumption as an epidemic of epic proportion, while highlighting the vaping and e-cigarettes problem where a new form of nicotine addiction is catching up among young students.
